I've just put laminate down in my lil ones room... the Fixa kit from Ikea is great for a fiver and has everything you'll need for fitting it, spacers, the wee plastic & metal things you whack :lol: etc... Homebase & B&Q usually do the same kinda kit too :)

Ikea also do a big roll of underlay stuff for £12/£15 (I can't remember exactly), which I thought would be rubbish but it's really good stuff.

I'm a bit fussy about it so I take the skirting off when laying real wood (or laminate) and put new stuff back on afterwards, that way you can fit the wall gaps properly (spacers are in the fitting kit) and not have any visual gaps (all hidden by the skirting).

Yup, I'll echo what everyone else has said - take your time and its easy. I've laid it in two 11ftx17ft rooms now and while it took pretty much all day to do there was nothing difficult about it really.

The Ikea stuff is good for the money although I found I had to clean out the interlocking edges on almost every plank to get them to fit properly since theres often raggy bits of wood in there.

Leave the wood in the room you're laying for a couple of days so it gets used to the room temperature and expands or contracts to suit. (no good storing it in a cold garage then fitting it in a warm house!)

Dont forget to leave a gap of a few mm around the edges to allow for the wood expanding and contracting with the temperature.

Leave the wood in the room you're laying for a couple of days so it gets used to the room temperature and expands or contracts to suit. (no good storing it in a cold garage then fitting it in a warm house!)

I used glue to interlock mine, use the best underlay you can afford, a good workbench is useful.
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